Editing Thomas Hobbes (section)

== Works ==
* 1602. Latin translation of Euripides' ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' (lost).
* 1620. "A Discourse of Tacitus", "A Discourse of Rome", and "A Discourse of Laws". In ''The Horae Subsecivae: Observation and Discourses''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hobbes|first=Thomas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vPD5QjS6OCIC|title=Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes|date=1995|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-34545-1|editor1-first=Noel B. |editor1-last=Reynolds |editor1-link=Noel B. Reynolds |editor2-first=Arlene W. |editor2-last=Saxonhouse}}</ref>
* 1626. "De Mirabilis Pecci, Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire" (publ. 1636) – a poem on the [[Seven Wonders of the Peak]].
* 1629. ''Eight Books of the Peloponnese Warre'', translation with an Introduction of [[Thucydides]], ''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]].''
* 1630. ''A Short Tract on First Principles''.<ref>Hobbes, Thomas. 1630. ''A Short Tract on First Principles'', [[British Library]], [[Harleian MS]] 6796, ff. 297–308.</ref><ref>Bernhardt, Jean. 1988. ''Court traité des premiers principes''. Paris: [[Presses Universitaires de France|PUF]]. (Critical edition with commentary and French translation).</ref>
** Authorship doubtful, as this work is attributed by important critics to [[Robert Payne (natural philosopher)|Robert Payne]].<ref>Timothy Raylor, Franco Giudice, Stephen Clucas, and [[Noel Malcolm]] vote for Robert Payne. [[:it:Karl Schuhmann|Karl Schuhmann]], Cees Leijenhorst, Guilherme Rodrigues Neto, and Frank Horstmann vote for Thomas Hobbes. On arguments pro Payne see Timothy Raylor, ''Hobbes, Payne, and 'A Short Tract on First Principles' '' (''The Historical Journal'', 44, 2001, pp. 29–58) and Noel Malcolm, ''Robert Payne, the Hobbes Manuscripts, and the 'Short Tract' '' (in: ''Aspects of Hobbes''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 80–145). On arguments pro Hobbes see Karl Schuhmann, ''Le 'Short Tract', première oeuvre philosophique de Hobbes'' (''Hobbes Studies'', 8, 1995, pp. 3-36.) and Frank Horstmann, ''Der Grauvließer. Robert Payne und Thomas Hobbes als Urheber des 'Short Tract' '' (Berlin: epubli, 2020, {{ISBN|978-3-752952-92-6}}.)</ref>
* 1637. ''A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique''<ref>Harwood, John T., ed. 1986. ''The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy''. Carbondale: [[Southern Illinois University Press]]. (Provides a new edition of the work).</ref>
** Molesworth edition title: ''The Whole Art of Rhetoric''.
** Authorship probable: While Schuhmann (1998) firmly rejects the attribution of this work to Hobbes,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schuhmann|first=Karl|date=1998|title=Skinner's Hobbes|journal=British Journal for the History of Philosophy|volume=6|issue=1|page=115|doi=10.1080/09608789808570984}} p. 118.</ref> a preponderance of scholarship disagrees with Schuhmann's idiosyncratic assessment. Schuhmann disagrees with historian [[Quentin Skinner]], who would come to agree with Schuhmann.<ref>[[Quentin Skinner|Skinner, Quentin]]. [2002] 2012. ''Hobbes and Civil Science'', (''Visions of Politics'' 3). Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]]. {{doi|10.1017/CBO9780511613784}}. (Skinner affirms Schuhmann's view: p. 4, fn. 27.)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016|first=Ioannis D.|last=Evrigenis|author-link=Ioannis D. Evrigenis|title=Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature|url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/images-anarchy-rhetoric-and-science-hobbess-state-nature|access-date=2023-03-10|website=Cambridge University Press|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227053356/http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/images-anarchy-rhetoric-and-science-hobbess-state-nature|url-status=live}} (Provides a summary of this confusing episode, as well as most relevant literature. p. 48 n. 13)</ref>
* 1639. ''Tractatus Opticus II'' (also known as ''Latin Optical Manuscript'').<ref>Hobbes, Thomas. 1639. ''Tractatus opticus II''. vis [[British Library]], [[Harley MS]] 6796, ff. 193–266.</ref><ref>First complete edition: 1963. For this dating, see the convincing arguments given by: Horstmann, Frank. 2006. ''Nachträge zu Betrachtungen über Hobbes' Optik''. Berlin: Mackensen. {{ISBN|978-3-926535-51-1}}. pp. 19–94.</ref>
* 1640. ''Elements of Law, Natural and Politic''
** Initially circulated only in handwritten copies; without Hobbes's permission, the first printed edition would be in 1650.
* 1641. ''Objectiones ad Cartesii Meditationes de Prima Philosophia'' 3rd series of Objections.
* 1642. ''[[De Cive|Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Tertia de Cive]]'' (Latin, 1st limited ed.).
* 1643. ''De Motu, Loco et Tempore<ref>A critical analysis of Thomas White (1593–1676) ''De mundo dialogi tres'', Parisii, 1642.</ref>''
** First edition (1973) with the title: ''Thomas White's De Mundo Examined.''
* 1644. Part of the "Praefatio to Mersenni Ballistica". In ''F. Marini Mersenni minimi Cogitata physico-mathematica. In quibus tam naturae quàm artis effectus admirandi certissimis demonstrationibus explicantur''.
* 1644. "Opticae, liber septimus" (also known as ''Tractatus opticus I'' written in 1640). In ''Universae geometriae mixtaeque mathematicae synopsis'', edited by [[Marin Mersenne]].
** Molesworth edition (OL V, pp.&nbsp;215–248) title: "Tractatus Opticus".
* 1646. ''A Minute or First Draught of the Optiques'' ([https://celm.folger.edu/repositories/british-library-harley-3000.html Harley MS 3360])<ref>Elaine Condouris Stroud, ''Thomas Hobbes' A Minute Or First Draught of the Optiques: A Critical Edition'', The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., 1983.</ref>
** Molesworth published only the dedication to Cavendish and the conclusion in EW VII, pp.&nbsp;467–471.
* 1646. ''Of Liberty and Necessity'' (publ. 1654)
** Published without the permission of Hobbes.
* 1647. ''Elementa Philosophica de Cive''
** Second expanded edition with a new ''Preface to the Reader''.
* 1650. ''Answer to Sir William Davenant's Preface before [[Gondibert]]''.
* 1650. ''Human Nature: or The Fundamental Elements of Policie''.
** Includes first thirteen chapters of ''The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic''.
** Published without Hobbes's authorisation.
* 1650. ''The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic'' (pirated ed.)
** Repackaged to include two parts:
*** "Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policie," ch. 14–19 of ''Elements'', Part One (1640)
*** "De Corpore Politico", ''Elements'', Part Two (1640)
* 1651. ''Philosophicall Rudiments concerning Government and Society'' – English translation of ''De Cive''<ref>Modern scholars are divided as to whether or not this translation was done by Hobbes. For a pro-Hobbes account see H. Warrender's introduction to ''De Cive: The English Edition'' in ''The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes'' (Oxford, 1984). For the contra-Hobbes account see Noel Malcolm, "Charles Cotton, Translator of Hobbes's De Cive" in ''Aspects of Hobbes'' (Oxford, 2002)</ref>
* 1651. ''[[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil]]''
* 1654. ''Of Libertie and Necessitie, a Treatise''
* 1655. ''[[De Corpore]]'' (in Latin)
* 1656. ''Elements of Philosophy, The First Section, Concerning Body'' – anonymous English translation of ''De Corpore''
* 1656. ''Six Lessons to the Professor of Mathematics''
* 1656. ''The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance'' – reprint of ''Of Libertie and Necessitie, a Treatise'', with the addition of Bramhall's reply and Hobbes's reply to Bramahall's reply.
* 1657. ''Stigmai, or Marks of the Absurd Geometry, Rural Language, Scottish Church Politics, and Barbarisms of John Wallis''
* 1658. ''Elementorum Philosophiae Sectio Secunda De Homine''
* 1660. ''Examinatio et emendatio mathematicae hodiernae qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Wallisii''
* 1661. ''Dialogus physicus, sive De natura aeris''
* 1662. ''Problematica Physica''
** English translation titled: ''Seven Philosophical Problems'' (1682)
* 1662. ''Seven Philosophical Problems, and Two Propositions of Geometry'' – published posthumously
* 1662. ''Mr. Hobbes Considered in his Loyalty, Religion, Reputation, and Manners. By way of Letter to Dr. Wallis'' – English autobiography
* 1666. ''De Principis & Ratiocinatione Geometrarum''
* 1666. ''A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England'' (publ. 1681)
* 1668.  ''[[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathan]]'' – Latin translation
* 1668. ''An answer to a book published by Dr. Bramhall, late bishop of Derry; called the Catching of the leviathan. Together with an historical narration concerning heresie, and the punishment thereof'' (publ. 1682)
* 1671. ''Three Papers Presented to the Royal Society Against Dr. Wallis. Together with Considerations on Dr. Wallis his Answer to them''
* 1671. ''Rosetum Geometricum, sive Propositiones Aliquot Frustra antehac tentatae. Cum Censura brevi Doctrinae Wallisianae de Motu''
* 1672. ''Lux Mathematica. Excussa Collisionibus Johannis Wallisii''
* 1673. English translation of [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'' and ''[[Odyssey]]''
* 1674. ''Principia et Problemata Aliquot Geometrica Antè Desperata, Nunc breviter Explicata & Demonstrata''
* 1678. ''Decameron Physiologicum: Or, Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy''
* 1679. ''Thomae Hobbessii Malmesburiensis Vita. Authore seipso'' – Latin autobiography
** Translated into English in 1680

=== Posthumous works ===
* 1680. ''An Historical Narration concerning Heresie, And the Punishment thereof''
* 1681. ''[[Behemoth (Hobbes book)|Behemoth, or The Long Parliament]]''
** Written in 1668, it was unpublished at the request of the King
** First pirated edition: 1679
* 1682. ''Seven Philosophical Problems'' (English translation of ''Problematica Physica'', 1662)
* 1682. ''A Garden of Geometrical Roses'' (English translation of ''Rosetum Geometricum'', 1671)
* 1682. ''Some Principles and Problems in Geometry'' (English translation of ''Principia et Problemata'', 1674)
* 1688. ''Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine Elegiaco Concinnata''

=== Complete editions ===

==== Molesworth editions ====
Editions compiled by William Molesworth.
{| class="wikitable"
|+''Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Opera Philosophica quae Latina Scripsit'', 5 vols. 1839–1845. London: Bohn.
<small>Reprint: Aalen, 1966 (= OL)</small>
!Volume
!Featured works
|-
|[[iarchive:operaphilosophi04molegoog|Volume I]]
|Elementorum Philosophiae I: ''De Corpore''
|-
|[[iarchive:operaphilosophi00molegoog|Volume II]]
|Elementorum Philosophiae II and III: ''De Homine'' and ''De Cive''
|-
|[[iarchive:operaphilosophi03molegoog|Volume III]]
|Latin version of ''Leviathan''.
|-
|[[iarchive:operaphilosophi01molegoog|Volume IV]]
|Various concerning mathematics, geometry and physics
|-
|[[iarchive:operaphilosophi02molegoog|Volume V]]
|Various short works.
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+''The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury'', 11 vols. 1839–1845. London: Bohn.
<small>Reprint: London, 1939–; Aalen, 1966 (= EW)</small>
!style="width: 10%" | Volume
!Featured Works
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0001hobbes|Volume 1]]
|''[[De Corpore]]'' translated from Latin to English.
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0002hobb|Volume 2]]
|''[[De Cive]]''.
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0003hobb_d1v1|Volume 3]]
|''Leviathan''
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0004hobb_u4s4|Volume 4]]
|{{Bulleted list|TRIPOS; in Three Discourses: {{Ordered list||list_style_type=upper-roman|Human Nature, or the Fundamental Elements of Policy|De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law|Of Liberty and Necessity}}|An Answer to Bishop Bramhall's Book, called "The Catching of the Leviathan"|An Historical Narration concerning Heresy, and the Punishment thereof|Considerations upon the Reputation, Loyalty, Manners, and Religion of Thomas Hobbes|Answer to Sir William Davenant's Preface before "Gondibert"|Letter to the Right Honourable Edward Howard}}
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0005hobb_l8s8|Volume 5]]
|''The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance, clearly stated and debated between Dr Bramhall Bishop of Derry and Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury''.
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworkstho16hobbgoog|Volume 6]]
|
* ''A Dialogue Between a Philosopher & a Student of the Common Laws of England''
* ''A Dialogue of the Common Law''
* ''Behemoth: the History of the Causes of the Civil Wars of England, and of the Counsels and Artifices By Which They Were Carried on From the Year 1640 to the Year 1660''
* ''The Whole Art of Rhetoric'' (Hobbes's translation of his own Latin summary of Aristotle's Rhetoric published in 1637 with the title ''A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique'')
* ''The Art of Rhetoric Plainly Set Forth. With Pertinent Examples For the More Easy Understanding and Practice of the Same'' (this work is not of Hobbes but by Dudley Fenner, ''The Artes of Logike and Rethorike'', 1584)
* ''The Art of Sophistry''
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0007hobb|Volume 7]]
|
* Seven Philosophical Problems
* Decameron Physiologicum
* Proportion of a straight line to half the arc of a quadrant
* Six lessons to the Savilian Professors of the Mathematics
* ΣΤΙΓΜΑΙ, or Marks of the absurd Geometry etc. of Dr Wallis
* Extract of a letter from Henry Stubbe
* Three letters presented to the [[Royal Society]] against Dr Wallis
* Considerations on the answer of Dr Wallis
* Letters and other pieces
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0001hobb|Volume 8]]
| rowspan="2" |''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]]'' by [[Thucydides]], translated into English by Hobbes.
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0009hobb_o2p9|Volume 9]]
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0010hobb_d2j3|Volume 10]]
|''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[The Odyssey]]'', translated by Hobbes into English
|-
|[[iarchive:englishworksofth0011hobb_u3o5|Volume 11]]
|Index
|}

==== Posthumous works not included in the Molesworth editions ====
{| class="wikitable"
!Work
!Published year
!Editor
!Notes
|-
|''The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic'' (1st complete ed.)
| rowspan="3" |London: 1889
| rowspan="3" |[[Ferdinand Tönnies]], with a preface and critical notes
|
|-
|"Short Tract on First Principles".<ref>critical edition: ''Court traité des premiers principes'', text, French translation and commentary by Jean Bernhardt, Paris: PUF, 1988</ref>

<small>Pp.&nbsp;193–210 in ''Elements'', Appendix I.</small>
|Attributed by important critics to Robert Payne
|-
|''Tractatus opticus II''  (1st partial ed.)
<small>pp.&nbsp;211–226 in ''Elements'', Appendix II.</small>
|1639, British Library, Harley MS 6796, ff. 193–266
|-
|''Tractatus opticus II'' (1st complete ed.)

<small>Pp.&nbsp;147–228 in ''Rivista critica di storia della filosofia'' 18</small>
|1963
|Franco Alessio
|Omits the diagrams
|-
|''Critique du 'De mundo' de Thomas White''
|Paris: 1973
|Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones
|Includes three appendixes:
* ''De Motibus Solis, Aetheris & Telluris'' (pp.&nbsp;439–447: a Latin poem on the movement of the Earth).
* Notes in English on an ancient redaction of some chapters of ''De Corpore'' (July 1643; pp.&nbsp;448–460: MS 5297, National Library of Wales).
* Notes for the ''Logica'' and ''Philosophia prima'' of the ''De Corpore'' (pp.&nbsp;461–513: Chatsworth MS A10 and the notes of Charles Cavendish on a draft of the ''De Corpore'': British Library, Harley MS 6083).
|-
|''Of the Life and History of Thucydides''

<small>pp.&nbsp;10–27 in ''Hobbes's Thucydides''</small>
|New Brunswick: 1975
|Richard Schlatter
|
|-
|''Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes'' (TD)

<small>pp.&nbsp;10–27 in ''Hobbes's Thucydides''</small>
|Chicago: 1975
|Noel B. Reynolds and Arlene Saxonhouse
|Includes:
* ''A Discourse upon the Beginning of Tacitus'' pp.&nbsp;31–67.
* ''A Discourse of Rome'', pp.&nbsp;71–102.
* ''A Discourse of Law'', pp.&nbsp;105–119.
|-
|''Thomas Hobbes' A Minute or First Draught of the Optiques: A Critical Edition'' 
|University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1983 - PhD dissertation
|Elaine C. Stroud
|British Library, Harley MS 3360

|-
|''Of Passions''

<small>pp.&nbsp;729–738 in ''Rivista di storia della filosofia'' 43</small>
|1988
|Anna Minerbi Belgrado
|Edition of the unpublished manuscript Harley 6093
|-
|''The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes'' (I: 1622–1659; II: 1660–1679)

<small>''Clarendon Edition'', vol. 6–7</small>
|Oxford: 1994
|Noel Malcolm
|
|}

=== Translations in modern English ===
* ''De Corpore, Part I. Computatio Sive Logica''. Edited with an Introductory Essay by L C. Hungerland and G. R. Vick. Translation and Commentary by A. Martinich. New York: Abaris Books, 1981.
* ''Thomas White's De mundo Examined'', translation by H. W. Jones, Bradford: Bradford University Press, 1976 (the appendixes of the Latin edition (1973) are not enclosed).

=== New critical editions of Hobbes's works ===
* ''Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes'', Oxford: Clarendon Press (10 volumes published of 27 planned).
* ''Traduction des œuvres latines de Hobbes'', under the direction of Yves Charles Zarka, Paris: Vrin (5 volumes published of 17 planned).